Last semester in my 3DS Max class, our final project was to make an animation of whatever we wanted. Well, it all turned out okay, some better than others, but one project stood out more than the rest... in a bad way.
One guy made an animation so unbelievably bad that I just have to share it with you guys. It starts out with him getting out of his car and walking into Taco Bell. No, it wasn't a 3D generated him walking into a 3D generated Taco Bell; it was from a video camera he had brought along. His friend or someone was holding it at a bad angle, recording him ordering a bean burrito. He waited for it to be ready, then left, walked out of the Taco Bell, and got in his car. The next five minutes or so was him driving home, with the camera pointed at the rear view mirror. I kid you not. Five minutes of buildings and road signs passing by in a mirror. Need I remind you than none of this was CG.
At this point I had thought the whole thing was a joke, and that the teacher was just going to stop the tape and move on to the next project, but she inexplicably kept it going until the end.
Now, he finally gets out of his car, and walks into his house, were he sits down in the living room and eats the burrito for a minute or so. I use the term "eat" loosely, as it was more like watching a barn yard animal eating out of a troth. When he is finally done, the camera zooms onto the table, and there it the only computer generated portion of this twenty minute tardathon, with a CG bean that had dropped out of the burrito rolling off the table and under the couch. This was a piss poor bit of compositing. The bean was rolling, but didn't really drop of off the table, the camera just panned over to the couch, with the bean staying in the same place on the screen.
anyway, after going under the couch, it meets up with three or so other rolling beans against a black background, with some text at the top saying something to the effect of "and the beans kept rolling" or some such nonsense. And that's were it stops.
For the good of the art form, I hope she failed him miserably.
